This macrame sea glass necklace lets you wear your beach discoveries this summer. All you need is a beautiful piece of sea glass and some cording to make your own jewelry for this project.
Macrame Sea Glass Necklace
If you can tie a knot, you can make this macrame sea glass necklace. With the (over)use of plastic, it’s harder and harder to find sea glass in shades of blues, greens, and browns on the beach.
But you can purchase sea glass from the craft store or online, or use painted rocks instead. This sea glass necklace would make a great craft for kids to do at a beach-themed party after serving up some beach-themed cupcakes.
What you will need to make a Macrame Sea Glass Necklace
- Sea glass pieces between one inch and three-inches in both width and diameter. You can also use painted rocks such as our strawberry painted rocks or these flower painted rocks. However, you’ll need them to be fairly small in order to fit the dimensions we used for the cording.
- 15 feet of cording (natural-color hemp cording and black nylon cording) per necklace*
*For smaller sea glass pieces, use thinner cording. Any comparable cording will work. (You may use embroidery thread, but I found it too light to knot as accurately as cording.)
How To Make a Macrame Sea Glass Necklace
These step by step photos and instructions are here to help you visualize how to make this project. Please scroll down to simply print out the instructions!
Cut six pieces of cording, each of them 30 inches in length. If you are using a painted river rock instead of sea glass, I suggest using eight pieces of cording. Because sea glass is jagged, it’s easier to secure between fewer pieces of cording.
Join all six pieces in a knot at one end of the cording, leaving an inch or two of fringe. This will be the bottom of your necklace.
Separate the six strands with the knot at the top of your workspace. Pair the strands into three sets of two. Tie a knot in each of the strand pairs about 1/2-inch (up to 3/4-inch for larger sea glass) from the knot at the top.
Now, separate all six strands again. Make new pairs, this time one strand from each of the knotted pairs. Tie new knots, 1/2 inches away from the other knots. This will mean the far left strand and the far right strand will end up being a knotted pair.
Test your sea glass to see if it fits yet. If not, repeat the step above.
Insert your sea glass into the macrame netting. Tightly tie a knot with all six strands at the top. Make sure the sea glass is fully secure.
Separate the six strands into two sets of three. Tie a knot on each side about two inches above the knot at the top of the sea glass. Tie the top of the strands to make a necklace your desired length.
More Beach Themed Crafts
This beautiful and easy macrame sea glass necklace is motivating me to get to the beach this summer and do some sea glass hunting! Below are more of our favorite beach-themed projects.
Macrame Sea Glass Necklace
Supplies
- sea glass pieces between one-inch and three-inches in width and diameter
- 15 feet of cording natural-color hemp cording and black nylon cording per necklace
Instructions
- Cut six pieces of cording, each 30 inches in length. If you are using a painted river rock instead of sea glass, I suggest using eight pieces of cording. Because sea glass is jagged, it’s easier to secure between fewer pieces of cording.
- Join all six pieces in a knot at one end of the cording, leaving an inch or two of fringe. This will be the bottom of your necklace.
- Separate the six strands with the knot at the top of your workspace. Pair the strands into three sets of two. Tie a knot in each of the strand pairs about 1/2-inch (up to 3/4-inch for larger sea glass) from the knot at the top.
- Now, separate all six strands again. Make new pairs, this time one strand from each of the knotted pairs. Tie new knots, 1/2 inches away from the other knots. This will mean the far left strand and the far right strand will end up being a knotted pair.
- Test your sea glass to see if it fits yet. If not, repeat the step above.
- Insert your sea glass into the macrame netting. Tightly tie a knot with all six strands at the top. Make sure the sea glass is fully secure. Separate the six strands into two sets of three. Tie a knot on each side about two inches above the knot at the top of the sea glass. Tie the top of the strands to make a necklace your desired length.
This post originally appeared here on Jun 5, 2018.
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Juanita Scott says
Thank you so much for these instructions …. Love your work !!!
Hannah Cochrane says
Will this project work with normal string instead of cording?
Thanks
Amanda Formaro says
As long as the string is strong enough. Some strings will wear over time, so you might want to get some that is made for jewelry projects.
Hannah Cochrane says
Okay thank you!!!